High child mortality at Innishannon Charter School, Co. Cork early 19th century and unrelated parliamentary Report on school 1813.

Some time ago looking at burial records from Innishanon Church of Ireland I was struck at what appears an abnormal rate of child mortality at the Charter School. This is in the early decades of the 19th century. At the time it was common for children to die young and this is reflected in the local burial registers of other churches This in particular stands out and reminds one of the Besssboro mothers and babies home (formerly the house of the Pike family) in Blackrock in Cork.

Google books had the 1813 Parliamentary Report into the irish Charter Schools which includes Innishannon.

http://books.google.ie/books?id=xC9bAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=apothecary+bandon&source=bl&ots=pJSE17aoFr&sig=-gOx2F8ebLUKPkPUtlduc5qiOqk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=28n7U9uwKufy7AbZ9oGQBQ&ved=0CCgQ6AEwBjgU#v=onepage&q=apothecary%20bandon&f=false

The charter schools, founded in the early eighteenth century, were envisaged by their supporters as the positive side to government policy towards the Roman Catholics of Ireland. The…